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‘BETTER OFF DEAD THAN DISFIGURED’? THE CHALLENGES OF FACIAL INJURY IN THE PRE-MODERN PAST

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Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, Volume: 26, Pages: 25 - 41

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DOI (Published version): 10.1017/s0080440116000037

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This paper contrasts modern representations of facial disfigurement, which often focus on the personal story of 'triumph over adversity', with the problems of accessing such first-person accounts in the medieval past. It examines a number of approaches to the history of facial disfiguremen...

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